09-14-08 23:40: Ardith Hinton to James Bradley "Insights...  2."

 AH>           You're wearing it... I'm not!  I accept your analysis, just
 AH> as I did with Nora when she was on chemotherapy.  I've never

You know - I know you do from your words - how hard it can be to parlay a
thought to someone, when they are convinced it aint so. This wouldn't be the
first place I "Preach to the choir" out of reflex. 


 AH> been on it myself... but I understand it often raises the
 AH> body temperature.  Dallas & I got a lot of flak from people who
 AH> considered it inappropriate to let a young child decide how to dress in
 AH> cold weather.  She had warm clothing available in case of
 AH> need... she carried to & from elementary school in a
 AH> backpack daily... and she seldom used it.  Some of the
 AH> kinder people offered us coats & jackets which their kids
 AH> had outgrown because they assumed she had none.  I received
 AH> all donations of kids' clothing with gratitude.  Anything
 AH> which improves the cost-per-wearing is fine with me.
 AH> Either way, however, *this kid knew something they
 AH> didn't*....  :-))

Had they had the (Pardon the jocular?) balls to ask why she was under dressed,
they could have saved all sorts, all sorts of anguish. You'd have been out a
jacket or two... 


 AH>           I reckon you may have upset them because you don't fit their
 AH> idea of the way things are, or should be... or that in their
 AH> eagerness to light a fire under you they're overlooking

The latest, was some Russian with back pain took injections of bee venom, and
now fights competitively, so I'm expected to make some miraculous recovery if I
do the same. "Ya... Maybe!" This was the same guy that demanded I
take oregano
oil (or some other herbal extract) because they advertised it on talk radio, so
it has to be legitimate. The same kinda guy, that believes Doctor Ho's
weight-loss machine *isn't* a T.E.N.S./muscle stimulator, and the Q-Ray
bracelet actually "... Works by the ancient Chinese art of Chi."


 AH> Injured Innocents... when one of them dumped us a few years
 AH> ago our primary reaction was a feeling of relief.  If you
 AH> feel you have to walk on eggshells around these people they
 AH> may be feeling the same way about you.  ;-)

The thing is, I can't be more belligerent without smakin'em. )-: I'm very close
to filing a complaint against one.


 AH> expecting to visit.  We did find it helpful, though, when
 AH> people left home made casseroles on our doorstep or gave us
 AH> advance notice of their trips to the grocery store etc. and

Free food is good.  I hope they didn't ring the doorbell and just leave it
there?


 AH> my father did shortly after her diagnosis too, while I was
 AH> living in the pediatric oncology ward.  He said he intended
 AH> to bring us a gift in the $5 range but wasn't sure what
 AH> we'd like.
 AH> I asked him to bring quarters for the hospital laundromat, and he
 AH> did....  :-)

ROTF!!! You had some good laughs about it, no doubt?




... James
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